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Catherine Hausman

Associate Professor of Public Policy
Hausman is an environmental and energy economist, and some of her recent areas of research include electricity markets and climate change; inequality in pollution exposure; and the natural gas sector's role in methane leaks. She is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research.
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Hausman comments on increasing electricity demand

Mar 5, 2026 Inside Climate News
Catie Hausman on the increased demand for electricity: "We’re seeing two years in a row after decades of flat demand growth, and that’s entirely consistent with what we know about data centers and also electrification and other broad market trends.”
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Discussing "Competing energy futures" at the Ford School

Oct 26, 2025
Decarbonization initiatives and renewable energy investments are compatible with the massive new energy requirements of the data center age, according to a panel of experts who spoke at the Ford School. What is needed is government policy that can gu...
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Hausman questions nuclear power use as a solution to cutting emissions

Mar 19, 2025 The Baltimore Banner
The Baltimore Banner spoke to the Ford School's Catherine Hausman asking for her predictions on the future of nuclear energy. The article noted that a recent study concluded the U.S. would have to increase nuclear output by nearly five-fold to meet t...
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Hausman discusses eliminating fossil fuel subsidies

Feb 27, 2025
A bill has been proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives to eliminate or reduce many tax breaks and exemptions currently offered to fossil fuel companies, including oil, gas, and coal. The Ford School's Catherine Hausman was recently featured in...
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Hausman hopes for positive climate impacts after new EPA ruling

May 21, 2024 USA Today
The Environmental Protection Agency established a new emissions standard targeting coal-fired power plants. The Ford School's Catie Hausman stated, “Energy analysts have been waiting for a ruling like this for a long time, so it is landmark." She add...
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Hausman discusses the productive impacts of long-distance power lines

May 14, 2024 Marketplace
Recent federal regulations instated a shift to build more long-distance power lines. The Ford School's Catie Hausman has noted some of the benefits that could come of this transition. “We need to integrate more wind and solar, and we need to integrat...
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Why Hausman will continue to use the term "clean energy"

Apr 19, 2024 Inside Climate News
Debates have surfaced over whether the term "clean energy" should be a term that we continue to use in society. The argument that no energy is completely clean or the term is been increasingly misused by coal and oil does not withstand against the Fo...
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Hausman's NBER paper examines energy transmission inefficiencies

Jan 31, 2024
A research paper from the Ford School's Catherine Hausman for the National Bureau of Economic Research looked at the gains and losses of the existing transmission constraints in the U.S. Utility Dive recently highlighted the paper.  The paper by Haus...
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Hausman's clean energy investment proposal

Apr 27, 2023
The Ford School's Catie Hausman has established principles for a transition of policy focus to clean energy research and development (R&D). In an essay for The Brookings Institution Hausman outlines her thoughts on clean energy R&D policy, highlighti...
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Hausman speaks on panel advocating for clean energy innovation

Apr 27, 2023
The Ford School's Catherine Hausman spoke on a panel for a Hamilton Project and Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability event titled "Powering a Clean Energy Future." The event focused on analyzing the ways we can move toward renewable energy through...
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Announcing winter 2023 Ford School events

Jan 11, 2023
 The Ford School is pleased to announce an exciting lineup for the winter 2023 Policy Talks @ the Ford School series and other special public events hosted with partners from across campus. Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise ...
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Seeking inspiring scholar and changemaker—please apply

Dec 15, 2022
The University of Michigan has officially launched its invitation to apply to be the next Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. The job description calls for “an experienced and inventive scholar/...
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Hausman warns of the costs of transition to "everything electric"

Jul 10, 2022 Colorado Public Radio
"A rapid energy transition could leave lower-income customers with higher gas bills, raising questions about the economic fairness of shifting homes away from fossil fuels," Colorado Public Radio warns, in part citing a recent paper co-authored by Fo...
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Oil executives benefit from prices hikes as well as downturns - Hausman

Apr 11, 2022 The Washington Post
When the oil industry gets lucky and prices rise, executives reap the benefits, according to an Energy Journal analysis of pay at 78 U.S. energy companies by University of Michigan economist Catherine Hausman and UC Berkeley economist Lucas Davis. Ex...
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Catherine Hausman comments on electrical grid changes in California

Jan 18, 2021 The San Francisco Chronicle
As California begins its transition to a battery powered electrical grid, Catherine Hausman comments that "these large-scale batteries can bring a real boost to grid reliability, and they can support zero-carbon electricity's integration into the gri...
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Catch up on Ford School faculty news - Winter 2019 State & Hill

Apr 17, 2019
In August, John Z. Ayanian published a policy–focused article with colleagues in the New England Journal of Medicine titled “ Mitigating the risks of Medicaid work requirements.” Michael S. Barr teamed up with Howell E. Jackson and Margaret E. Ta...